The faculty that make up the core of the Urban Design program represent professional experiences that range from Europe to California. The faculty represents an equally diverse and prestigious set of educational backgrounds. As a group, they interpret practice and scholarship broadly but with a focus upon stewardship; they promote an understanding that our collective social landscapes must represent a diversity of interests, needs, and visions while simultaneously protecting our cultural and natural resources.
David Walters
David Walters is an architect, urban designer, town planner and a tenured full professor at UNC-Charlotte. Originally from England, Walters qualified as an architect in 1972 after completing undergraduate and graduate degrees with honors in architecture and urban design from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
For eleven years Walters taught and practiced in England, where he won national awards for housing and urban design. In 1983 he moved to the USA, teaching and practicing in Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma before joining the Charlotte faculty in 1990. Walters directs the Masters of Urban Design graduate program at the College of Arts and Architecture at UNC-Charlotte, and since 1998 has been a senior urban designer with The Lawrence Group, architects and town planners with whom he has won numerous state planning awards for urban design master plans and development regulations. Visit him at his website: www.davidwaltersriba.com
Jose Gamez
José L.S. Gámez is an Associate Professor of Architecture and a member of the Latin American Studies faculty at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is also the Coordinator of the Design+Society Research Center in the College of Arts+Architecture. His research and design practices explore questions of cultural identity in architecture and urbanism. Prior to joining the faculty at UNC Charlotte, he taught at Portland State University and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He received his Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M University (College Station), his Master of Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Zhongjie Lin
Dr. Zhongjie Lin is an assistant professor of architecture and urban design. His research focuses on postwar architectural avant-gardes, Japanese modern architecture and urbanism, and contemporary Asian urbanism. He is the author of Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan (Routledge, 2010) and Urban Design in the Global Perspective (China Architectural Press, 2006, co-authored with Gary Hack and Kuang Shi). He directs SoA’s summer program in China. He received a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Architecture from Tongji University in Shanghai, China, and his Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.
Emily Makas
Emily Gunzburger Makaš is an Assistant Professor of Architectural and Urban History in the School of Architecture and an affiliated faculty member of the Art History and International Studies Programs. Her research focuses on the relationships between politics, national identity, conflict, and the built environment. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming Capital _Cities in the Aftermath of Empires: Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe_ (Routledge, 2010) as well as the co-author of the forthcoming _Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas_ (Wiley, 2011). Makaš received her Master’s in Historic Preservation from Columbia University and her Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urbanism from the College of Art, Architecture, and Planning at Cornell University.
Deborah Ryan
Deb Ryan has a 25-year history of assisting communities and their leaders with challenges relating to development, urban open space and downtown revitalization. As an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UNCC, she was the founding and former Director of the Charlotte Community Design Studio (CCDS), the off-campus, urban design and public outreach arm of the School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte, Director of the Urban Open Space Leadership Institute (OSL) and Former Director of the Mayor’s Institute on City Design: South. Deb has also served as the Chair of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Art Commission, a member of the Arts and Science Council and a member of the University City Partners Board of Directors.
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